Living Versus Dying “With Dignity”: A New Perspective on the Euthanasia Debate

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Koch
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Dying With Dignity ◽  
Full Discussion ◽  
New Perspective

There has been no informed or honest debate in North America over the issue of liberalized euthanasia. Despite thousands of newspaper stories, scores of learned academic articles, a handful of closely analyzed legal decisions, and hours of broadcast news and talk show imagery, a full discussion is yet to begin.

scholarly journals Authority signaling: How relational interactions between journalists and politicians create primary definers in UK broadcast news

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 896-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick ◽  
Declan McDowell-Naylor ◽  
Amy P Smith ◽  
Ellen Watts
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Sociology Of News ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Relational Interactions

How journalists construct the authority of their sources is an essential part of how news comes to have power in politics and how political actors legitimize their roles to publics. Focusing on economic policy reporting and a dataset of 133 hours of mainstream broadcast news from the 5-week 2015 UK general election campaign, we theorize and empirically illustrate how the construction of expert source authority works. To build our theory, we integrate four strands of thought: an important, though in recent years neglected, tradition in the sociology of news concerned with ‘primary definers’; the underdeveloped literature on expert think tanks and media; recent work in journalism studies advocating a relational approach to authority; and elements from the discursive psychology approach to the construction of facticity in interactive settings. Our central contribution is a new perspective on source authority: the identification of behaviors that are key to how the interactions between journalists and elite political actors actively construct the elevated authoritative status of expert sources. We call these behaviors authority signaling. We show how authority signaling works to legitimize the power of the United Kingdom’s most important policy think tank and discuss the implications of this process.

scholarly journals The American Serialization of Lord Jim

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Donovan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Perspective

This essay presents the discovery of the American serialization of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim in New York’s Evening Telegram in 1903. This ‘lost’ serialization, it argues, invites a new perspective on Conrad’s early career by foregrounding the role of newspaper serialization and syndication in establishing his literary standing. After surveying the principal differences in the respective reading experiences of the periodical versus the book, it concludes by proposing that the prominence of women among Conrad’s first audiences requires us to reassess the basis for his success in North America and elsewhere.    

scholarly journals Chinese and North American culture: A new perspective in linguistics studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Ziang Xiu Li ◽  
Cheng Yu Huan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
American Way ◽  
New Perspective

We explored the two cultures in the two countries. There has been discussed on Chinese culture and North American culture. Chinese language, ceramics, architecture, music, dance, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy, business etiquette, religion, politics, and history have global influence, while its traditions and festivals are also celebrated, instilled, and practiced by people around the world. The culture of North America refers to the arts and other manifestations of human activities and achievements from the continent of North America. The American way of life or simply the American way is the unique lifestyle of the people of the United States of America. It refers to a nationalist ethos that adheres to the principle of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Individual Influence

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 1244-1250
Author(s):  
George Moses Horton ◽  
Jonathan Senchyne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Efficacy ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Enslaved African Americans ◽  
First Time

George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) is one of three African Americans known to have published poetry while enslaved in colonial north America or the United States. The recently discovered holograph manuscript of “Individual Influence” is the only available evidence that Horton also wrote short essays. Written in 1855 or 1856 and published here for the first time, “Individual Influence” provides a new perspective on Horton's writing process, his strategic affiliations in Chapel Hill, and his changing ideas about the relative efficacy of political and divine influence. More generally, the essay expands the available archive of writing by enslaved African Americans.

scholarly journals Mythische Räume der Gesetzlosigkeit in Erzählungen über Robin Hood, Klaus Störtebeker und Jesse James

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas J. Haller
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Spatial Aspect ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
People Today

This book attends to three outlaw heroes from England, Germany, and North America. Robin Hood, Klaus Stoertebeker, and Jesse James still fascinate people today. The myth of the outlaw expresses social discourses about law and justice, government and resistance, and sovereignty and legitimacy. Stories in which robbers, pirates, or bandits advance to become rebels and heroes give literary form to the contradictions of the legal order. Law has a social and spatial aspect. The depiction of historio-spatial constellations in the narratives reveals how law is imagined as a social relation. This study of mythic spaces of lawlessness opens up a new perspective on the meaning of heroic outlawry as a phenomenon of social and spatial transgression.

No Asylum for the Innocent: Gendered Representations of Salvadoran Refugees in the 1980s

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 1103-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael De La Cruz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Salvadoran Civil War

During the 1980s, El Salvador was engaged in a brutal civil war; massacres, torture, and rape pervaded the countryside. This social and economic upheaval created approximately 1.5 million refugees and internally displaced persons throughout Central and North America. Gender is a critical yet understudied aspect of this mass displacement. I analyze humanitarian publications and government documents to examine the discursive gendering of Salvadoran refugees on the international stage. I argue that U.S. activists portrayed Salvadorans as feminized civilian victims in need of rescue by the paternalistic United States to change public opinion of the Salvadoran Civil War and its refugees. These gendered and infantilized constructions belie the reality that the vast majority of Salvadoran refugees to the United States were men of military age. I examine the Salvadoran refugee from a new perspective that foregrounds gender as a category of analysis.

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN JOHN BURTON ATAS NASKH DALAM AL-QURAN DAN HADIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-186
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asywar Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Western Scholar ◽  
New Perspective

This paper informs the thoughts of a Western scholar, John Burton, related to his commentary on the naskh theory addressed to the Quran and Hadith or in other terms Tradition, borrowed the term Burton. In his book, al-Suyuthi quotes the words of the scholars that no one can interpret the Quran except after he knows the science of nāskh. Therefore, the concept of naskh is important to be studied further through the new perspective of scholars both Muslim and Non-Muslim. John Burton was selected to be studied because he was among the earliest Western scholar who shows great concern for the discussed matter in the field of the Quran and Hadith studies. From this writing, it was found, that in Burton’s view, the removal of the verse and its rules were ideas made by Muslim fuqaha who tried to base their legal decisions on the Quran even though the text of the Quran had no reference to that decision.

A new perspective on Punctelia subrudecta (Parmeliaceae) in North America: previously rejected morphological characters corroborate molecular phylogenetic evidence and provide insight into an old problem

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. LENDEMER ◽  
Brendan P. HODKINSON
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Its2 Sequence ◽  
The North ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn North America the names Punctelia subrudecta and P. perreticulata have variously been applied to corticolous sorediate Punctelia specimens with lecanoric acid and a pale lower surface. ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2 sequence data were generated from a geographically and morphologically broad sampling from within these specimens, and a molecular phylogeny was inferred. A combined approach using morphology, geography, and phylogeny was used to circumscribe three distinct species in North America, one of which is described as new to science (P. caseana), one of which is finally confirmed for the continent (P. jeckeri), and one whose original circumscription is validated (P. perreticulata). The phylogeny inferred from ITS sequence data supports the taxonomic value of the following morphological characters for distinguishing species in this group: presence/absence of pruina; conidium type and length (although see discussion of P. jeckeri), and presence/absence of scrobiculae on the upper surface. A key to the North American species of Punctelia is provided.

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